Seat for package binding strands



Oct. 12, 1943. R. A. WALKER SEAT FOR PACKAGE BINDING STRAND-3 Filed May 26, 1941 Patented Oct. 12, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SEAT FOR PACKAGE BINDING STRANDS Richard A. Walker, St. Joseph, Mo. Application May 2 1941, Serial No. 395,239

(C1. ZOE-60) 1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in seats for package binding strands.

It is of a type used to prevent binding strands, such as wires, cords, cables or ropes from indenting or cutting into relatively yielding packages,

such as paper cartons or pasteboard boxes, which the strands embrace, the seat having means for preventing its shifting during transportation.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel seat of the kind described, which has not sharp points or corners which are liable to cut' The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates the preferred embodiment of my invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a package to which strand seats of my invention are applied in operative positions.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a disk from which one of my improved strand seats is to be formed.

, Fig. 3 is a plan view of the disk after the ridges have been formed thereon.

Fig, 4 is a side view of the completed seat, looking at the two diverging portions.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the seat with one side shown vertically and the other horizontally.

Fig. 6 is an end view of the strand seat.

Similar characters of reference designate similar parts in the different views.

My improved strand seat is made of thin material, preferably sheet steel or brass,consisting primarily of a sheet metal disk I, Fig. 2; across the middle portion of which are formed two par- If the package '1 is rectangular, the portions 4, are, preferably, bent at an angle to each other slightly less than a right angle, as shown in Fig. 6, so that the opposite edges of the portions 4 will fit snugly against the adjacent sides of the package.

Each of the portions or parts 4 of the angular plate has'but a single outer edge which is convexly arcuate, even and unbroken throughout its length, and its ends respectively join the ends of the outer edge of the other part 4 at the. angle of joinder between said two parts 4.

The ridges 2 and groove 3 between them, in the completed seat, extend transversely to the angle of joinder, between and to the oppositely 1 In use, the strand seats 4 are applied to embrace meeting sides of the package, as shown in Fig, 1, andthe binding strands, as wires, cords,

ropes or cables 8 are disposed in the channels or grooves 3 of alined seats 4.

The curvilinear, as convex, outer edges of each seat 4 prevent the seat from indenting or cutting allel ridges 2, which form between them a diametrical groove 3, Fig. 3.

The disk thus formed is then bent at right angles to the groove 3 to form the completed strand seat, shown in Figs. 1, 4, 5 and 6, having two portions 4 which are alike, in the form shown into the package material, when the material is of relative soft texture, as pasteboard 'or papersheets. The curvilinear edges also prevent the strand seats from cutting or bruising the fingers of the person who isapplying the binding strands to the package.

As shown in Fig. 5, the channel or groove 3 extends across the angle of-joinder between the two portions 4 of the seat, and the ridges 2 insure that the binding strand will not accidentally be displaced from the channel.

' The strand seats are adapted to be nested in v I of joind'er approximately that between said two meeting sides, each of said two parts having a single outer edge convexly arcuate, even and unbroken throughout its length with its ends respectively joining, atsaid angle of joinder, the

ends of the outer edge of the otherof said two parts, said plate having in its outer side a strand 1 receiving channel extending transversely across said angle of joinder. I

RICHARD A, WALKER. 

